Itâ(TM)s not a âoefreeâ country though. There are limits on everything. One person owns a thing and you canâ(TM)t touch it without permission.

We might have a lot of choices, within a confined area like what shampoo to buy from three different holding companies that might mean itâ(TM)s actually two. But we canâ(TM)t just take that shampoo without buying it.

We also have a duty to society; or we can watch it fall apart, which is what we are doing.

The prediction market is gambling, and thereâ(TM)s no protection at all against rigging. For instance; someone bet a good deal of money that Trump would bless Allah on Easter Sunday. What are the chances they had access to the script going to the teleprompter? Weâ(TM)ve actually had military strikes and peace deals predicted.

Somehow, they made something worse than gambling in a casino and gladiators spectacles and we can bet on life and death now.

And itâ(TM)s like decriminalizing dangerous drugs. It can make things better but only if itâ(TM)s not commercialized and easily accessible. If there are support systems to help with addiction. If there is opportunity for people to live happy lives.

When there is no hope, addiction gets worse. And thereâ(TM)s nothing better to improve profits and numbers of butts in pews than a crumbling hopeless society.

We can incrementally improve but easy access online gambling that favors inside information is the wrong direction. Iâ(TM)d rather trade this freedom for free college education.

Still, Slashdot doesn't have to play along with their weasel wording. For example, "ergonomic collars that deliver an electric pulse" - just say "shock collar". Don't help them whitewash what they're talking about.

Haha, no. Humans' collars are already here, we just keep them in our pockets and pay for them ourselves.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a company that doesn't hide things. The difference between Anthropic and (insert company here) is only that Anthropic leaked their source code, so now we can see what they kept hidden.

Apple is no open environment. I hate it when the corporates decide for you that you should not use your software under the next incarnation of the operating system to make way for some unproductive Cloud storage scheme.

I hope for the EU digital fairness Act to end these abusive practices.

Otherwise I use Linux and I think it is ready for mainstream now.

Fun fact: I knew a former apple lobbist who told me that Mac OS X was based on Linux. Which is not entirely correct.

I would expect it to be even more. In Germany I think every euro spent on renewables makes us less dependent on the strait of hormuz and other fossil nighmares.

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft...

I am glad for every cent that does not fuel Exxon and the likes and the corruption of democracy that follows from that dependency.

In digital we need digital sovereignty, in energy we need energy sovereignty.

The whole Musk companies are strange, the valuation looks like fiction to me.

I mean, Musk had this car maker thar produces very few EV cars valued higher than companies that do dominate the market.

If you can't figure out for yourself what's wrong with ordering large numbers of men to their deaths, then I won't be able to explain it to you.

They could take that one step further: once your computer has compiled the appropriate shader for its particular combination of hardware/driver/etc, the game could upload that particular shader to a repository, so that the next install with the exact same combination of conditions could just download it instead of having to duplicate the work. I imagine there are a lot of people out there running functionally identical systems that would benefit.

I suppose they don't do that because they don't trust people not to repurpose the mechanism as a malware vector, or something.

He's probably not scared enough. Anyone old enough to remember Vietnam knows how the song goes from here. "We must throw another batch of American men into the meat grinder, otherwise the lives of the previous batch will have been sacrificed in vain", and repeat ad infinitum.

What would it take to get Wine to the next level? How much investment would be needed?

That may be the case in the US but not in Europe. There we have interop privileges in the EU software copyright directive.
This is why your the steward organisation shall be based in Europe or any other place that grants you legal satefy.

To satisfy US requirements the trick is usually to separate research from implementation.

that is, you have one project that documents functionality, and another independent project that implements the spec.

Adversarial interoperability of course needs to get stengthened.

This really does not matter. Copyright protects only the expession of software. You are free to clone software with independent code.